This product is the woody heartwood of sandalwood, an evergreen small tree of the sandalwood family. Produced in Hainan, Guangdong, Yunnan, Taiwan, India, Indonesia and other places. It is best to harvest in summer. Remove the heartwood, slice or chop it into pieces and use it raw.

[Property]

bitter, warm. act on spleen, stomach and lung channels.

[Efficacy]

moving qi to relieve pain, dispel cold and tone the middle.

[Indications]

It is used for cold pain in the chest and abdomen, cold pain in the epigastrium, and vomiting due to lack of food. This product is pungent and warm, which is beneficial to the diaphragm and chest, dissipates cold and regulates the central nervous system, and has the effect of moving qi to relieve pain. To treat congealing cold and qi stagnation chest pain, it can be used with Corydalis Tuber, Asarum, Piji, such as Kuanxiong Pills. To treat cold pain in the epigastrium and vomiting due to lack of food, you can grind this product into powder and drink it in Dried Ginger soup; or mix it with Aquilaria or Cardamon Fruit, Villous Amomum Fruit are equivalent.

1. Rihuazi Bencao: "Stops the abdominal pain of the heart."
2. Benjing Fengyuan: "Good at regulating the adverse Qi in the diaphragm...and also It is suitable for stimulating the Yangming Meridian and vomiting and reversing vomiting. "
3. Bencao Beiyao: "It is an important medicine for regulating the spleen and lungs and benefiting the chest and diaphragm."

[Usage and Dosage]

1 to 3 grams. If decoction is taken, it is advisable to be decocted later.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains volatile oil. The main components in the oil are α-sandalwood terpene alcohol, β-sandalwood terpene alcohol, and contain sandalwood terpene, sandalwood terpene ketone, etc. It has an antagonistic effect on cardiac arrhythmias caused by Cold-Extremities Decoction and Acanthopanax Bark poisoning.